{"product_id":"coming-thing-book-martina-evans-9781800173453","title":"The Coming Thing","description":"Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2024 A TLS and The Irish Times Book of the Year  The Coming Thing is  a brilliant long narrative poem. It is not Evans's first: she has  become celebrated for work on this scale, spoken, dramatic, abundant.  She has been justly acclaimed by, among others, Colm Tóibín. He says of  her inimitable narrative style, 'Slowly, a poem that seems animated by  random thoughts and images takes on a strange, concentrated power; the  lines begin to feel like pure style, the narrative voice holding and  wielding the hidden energies that Martina Evans consolidates, and then  releases with such energy and confidence and verve.'  Imelda, the  book's central character, is immersed in challenging new worlds where  old customs still somehow survive. It is the 1980s and the poem takes  shape among punks in Cork City. The 'coming thing' refers to the arrival  of computers which were taking hold and beginning to effect their  transformations of data and then of lives; but ultimately the title  identifies the abortion which Imelda will have in a Brixton clinic.  Imelda, who Evans's regular readers will recall from her earlier narrative Petrol (2012),  narrates the story with a light touch, even when the book's  preoccupation with abortion, suicide and euthanasia provides a strong  and compelling undertow. The Coming Thing looks hard at the  duplicity surrounding received ideas about the sacredness of human life  and how economic change runs counter to the values of 'old' Ireland.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49744238510353,"sku":"NGR9781800173453","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49757393649937,"sku":"GOR013429485","price":10.5,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52814964588817,"sku":"CIN1800173458G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53057933672721,"sku":"GOR014719499","price":9.5,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1800173458.jpg?v=1756707678","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-ch\/products\/coming-thing-buch-martina-evans-9781800173453","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}